dicimur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →dico, dicere, dixi, dictus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
say, declare, state; allege, declare positively; assert; plead (case);; talk/speak; make speech; play (instrument); pronounce, articulate; utter; mean;; name/call; appoint, fix/set (date); designate, declare intention of giving;
pl. pres. pass. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...inuasit occupata paupertas, sic diuitias habent quomodo habere dicimur febrem, cum illa nos habeat. E contrario dicere solemus..."Liber III
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...iniuria, bonum malum". Sed quoniam quod iure dicimur fecisse non hunc solum intellectum habet, ut lege, sed illum..."